Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf set in post-war London on a single day in June. It follows Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares to host a party, while also tracing the inner life of Septimus Smith, a shell-shocked war veteran. The book is known for its lyrical stream-of-consciousness style, a meditation on time, memory and mental illness.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
BY VIRGINIA WOOLF Fiction THE VOYAGE OUT NIGHT AND DAY JACOB’S ROOM MRS. DALLOWAY TO THE LIGHTHOUSE ORLANDO THE WAVES THE YEARS BETWEEN THE ACTS A HAUNTED HOUSE Biography FLUSH ROGER FRY Criticism, etc. THE COMMON READER THE SECOND COMMON READER A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN THREE GUINEAS THE DEATH OF THE MOTH THE MOMENT AND OTHER ESSAYS
MRS. DALLOWAY by VIRGINIA WOOLF НВМС New York HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD, INC.
COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD, INC. RENEWED BY LEONARD WOOLF All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. Twenty-third printing PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA